Elsie May Kittredge (May 14, 1870 – 1954) was an American botanist, photographer, watercolor painter[1], and curator for the New York Botanical Gardens.
[8] Kittredge began working for the Brooklyn Botanical Garden in 1910, making and coloring lantern slides.
In 1917, she was named assistant curator at the New York Botanical Gardens, and charged with its collection of lantern slides and negatives.
[9] That same year, she travelled to Woodstock, Vermont, to assist Elizabeth Billings in collecting plant specimens.
[14] In addition to the specimens, Kittredge assisted Billings with the Fernery, her private fern garden.